Thursday, June 18, 2015

A Day Unlike Any Other

I tried to save this drowning Blue Dasher because I could.


While I was struggling to reach her with the longest branch I could find, while I was letting her balance on my finger and clean her face, while I admired her wild beauty and felt her light touch and knew her trust, I thought of the nine people murdered in Charleston, and of their families and friends and community, and of us Americans all, in a mad country, and was glad I could help at least one victim of unknown violence.

May all rest in peace.

2 comments:

Julie Puttgen said...

beautiful, Robley, and so clear. it is good to remember what we CAN do, in the midst of so much we can't change.

Robley H said...

Thank you, Julie. May all be well.